40 Incredibly Accurate Predictions That Would Split What Actually Happened's Arrow in An Archery Competition

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40 Incredibly Accurate Predictions That Would Split What Actually Happened's Arrow in An Archery Competition

We have to be honest, this list freaked us out a little. Like, how is it possible that someone can create something or make a random claim that ends up being eerily accurate years later?

We don’t know your stance on the existence of time travel, but these accurate predictions definitely make a good case for it.

Star Trek

Star Trek 20th-century sci-fi predicts 21st- century agriculture. In The Trouble with Tribbles, Quadrotriticale is a genetically- engineered hybrid grain, predicting GMO, and used in 2268 to attempt to develop Sherman's Planet as an agrarian colony. CRACKED

Spooks

Spooks writers: Prophets? Spooks The writers of BBC One's hit MI5 drama have an uncanny knack for predicting real-life events, from the 7/7 bombings to the global financial crisis, which has led to the show being nominated for a BAFTA award in its eighth series. CRACKED

Hackers

Hackers ACTDRORNE OLOVE LOVE de GODOSEXЬ 28PHREAKLEL LOCRA SKILL LORDNIKO TARERRIDE SECRETOS NED On-demand TV, RV gaming, and more. The 1995 thriller is often mocked for its campy portrayal of teenage tech-whizzes, but it was surprisingly prophetic about modern technology, accurately predicting on-demand TV, tech world sexism, virtual reality gaming, and the dangers of simple passwords. CRACKED

Arrested Development

Predicting the Trump Wall. Arrested Development Season 4 predicted the idea of a US- Mexican border wall, which President Donald Trump later adopted, and the show acknowledged this in its fifth season. CRACKED

Full House

An episode of Full House featured Aunt Becky in admissions scandal Uncle Jesse lies on his kids' preschool application, but in the TV show, Aunt Becky 'fesses up. CRACKED.COM

House of Cards

UK's House of Cards predicted the fall of Margaret Thatcher The episode in which Margaret Thatcher's character resigned aired only four days before the actual Prime Minister resigned. CRACKED.COM

Albert Brooks

ALBERT BROOKS PREDICTED REALITY me TV IN 1979. FILMING THANKSGIVING His mockumentary film Real Life featured an obnoxious, intrusive camera crew trailing a family and deliberately stirring up conflict. It was meant as a sendup of a PBS documentary series, but with the twist that most of the drama was generated artificially by the producer. CRACKED.COM http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/real-life-1979

Nicki Minaj

NICKI MINAJ PREDICTED HER COUSIN'S DEATH, WITH A SONG. Why'd you have to leave in July? On a peaceful and serene summer night... Why the doctors could not stop the bleeding... Now you see you not bullet proof... I could've told you about my intuition ... Why'd you have to go so soon? -We Miss You A year after Nicki wrote this, her cousin Nicholas Telemaque was gunned down in July and left to bleed to death. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nicholas-telemague- CRACKED.COM 27-shot-death-brooklyn-street-leaving-nightclub-article-1.155416

The Simpsons

THE SIMPSONS (1998) YARD WORK SIMULATOR CRACKED COM FARMVILLE (2013)

Jules Verne

Three brave men step into a capsule in Florida named Columbiad. They are launched to the moon, survive the trip, and return to Earth, parachuting safely to the Pacific Ocean. This all happened in a novel written by Jules Verne 100 years before it actually happened. . CRACKED COM

The Titan

The Wreck In 1898, Morgan Robertson published a of the book about a supposedly unsinkable Titan boat, the largest one ever made, that sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an OF, Futility iceberg. Не called the boat The Titan. Since this was 14 years before the Titanic disaster, we can't blame him for missing the name of the boat by two letters. Morgan Robertson SOURCE: http://www.cracked.com/article_18421_6-insane- CRACKED COM coincidences-you-wont-believe-actually-happened.html

Brave New World

In 1932's Evening News LATE SPECIAL Brave New World, - - SALE - Meet Louise, the world's Aldous Huxley first test-tube arrival described in-vitro fertilization. SUPERBABE BRAVE NEW WORLD Wide-eyed Louine Brown pictured in hospital 14 bours ofter the ... born, Today abo's doing will See Page Three In 1978, the world greeted Louise Brown, who was the first ALDOUS HUXLEY test-tube baby. CRACKED COM

Airplane 2

AIRPLANET THE SEQUEL - SCANNERS THAT GENERATE NAKED IMAGES OF PASSENGERS? SURELY YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS. CRACKED.COM

iPads

CRACKED.CON 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Apple iPad (2010)

Pearl Harbor

AT THE SAME TIME ENEMY WARSHIPS FIRE ON PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII.. NATIONAL COMICS #18 DEPICTED UNCLE SAM DEFENDING PEARL HARBOR IT WAS RELEASED IN 10° NOVEMBER, rmg 1941. AMERICA'S HERO UNCLE SAM CONSTANTIE ON DECEMBER 7, 1941, JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR CRACKED CON

Second Chance

MATTHEW PERRY'S SHOW SECOND CHANCE SHOWED THE CHARACTER IN HEAVEN WITH ST. PETER AND MUAMMAR GADDAFI. ACCORDING TO THIS SHOW, GADDAFI DIES ON JULY 29, 2011. Gaddafi ended up being killed on october 20, 2011. we'd say that's pretty close for a prediction made 24 years in advance. CRACKED.COM

Chinatown

IN CHINATOWN ONE CHARACTER'S ALLEGED SISTER IS ACTUALLY HER MOTHER. JACK NICHOLSON'S REAL-LIFE ALLEGED SISTER TURNED OUT TO BE HIS MOTHER. TIME magazine researched his family and discovered the couple he'd considered his parents were actually his grandparents. Nicholson joining a film with this plot was a complete coincidence -he'd had no idea of the truth. CRACKED.COM

Above Suspicion

A FORGETTABLE 1995 HBO MOVIE CALLED ABOVE SUSPICION FEATURED CHRISTOPHER REEVE. ...AS AN OFFICER CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR. This film aired May 25. May 27 was the day of Reeve's horseback riding accident. The movie where he plays a paraplegic was released just two days before he landed in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. CRACKED.COM

Extras

THE 2005 SHOW EXTRAS FEATURES A FICTIONAL HOLOCAUST FILM STARRING KATE WINSLET. SAYS WINSLET, CYNICALLY: DO A FILM ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST, YOU'RE GUARANTEED AN OSCAR. Fast-forward to 2008, and Kate winslet has a leading role in The Reader, a Holocaust film. Despite getting mixed reviews, it scores winslet an Oscar for Best Actress. CRACKED.COM

Jackie Wilson

ONE OF JACKIE WILSON'S BIGGEST HITS, 1958'S LONELY TEARDROPS, FEATURES THIS SOULFUL LINE: Lonely Teardrops MY HEART IS CRYIN', CRYIN'. on september 29, 1975, he sang the song live. Right when he hit the line, he had a massive heart attack. The crowd thought he was just acting. CRACKED.COM

Stranger in a Strange Land

ROBERT HEINLEIN'S 1961 NOVEL STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND PREDICTED 3-D COMPUTERS IN EVERY HOME. IT ALSO CAME UP WITH A MUCH MORE SPECIFIC PREDICTION: SCREENSAVERS. A stereovision tank disguised as an aquarium; he switched it on, guppies and tetras gave way to the face of the well-known Winchell. Fish in an aquarium would become one of the most popular screensavers out there. CRACKED.COM

Demolition Man

CHECK THE NAMES IMPRISONED WITH WESLEY SNIPES AND SYLVESTER STALLONE IN DEMOLITION MAN: CRYO-PENITENTIARY MORNING HEARING SCHEDULE ID# INMATE TIME 07:00 HYDE, QUENTIN 357-M 08:15 PETERSON, SCOTT 4-NKT 07:30 PHOENIX, SIMON 46B-W IT'S A MURDERER NAMED SCOTT PETERSON. Peterson would be the center of a sensational 2004 trial for killing his pregnant wife. The movie even put him in the right jail: Its cryoPrison houses california's worst criminals, as does scott's san Quentin, california's last death row facility. CRACKED.COM

Warren Zevon

WARREN ZEVON'S FACTORY ENDS WITH KICKIN' ASBESTOS IN THE FACTORY/ BREATHIN' THAT PLASTIC IN THE FACTORY. ZEVON DIED OF LUNG CANCER FROM INHALING ASBESTOS The weird part is that Zevon never worked in a factory in his life. Не wrote the lyrics totally coincidentally, inhaled the asbestos from some unknown source, and was diagnosed years later. CRACKED.COM

Chappelle’s Show

IN 2003, CHAPPELLE'S SHOWFEATURED A SKETCH TITLED TRADING SPOUSES, PLAYING OFF THE REALITY SHOW TRADING SPACES. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PARODY. It's a standard comedy formula: take one element of the real thing, Trading Spouses and exaggerate it to ludicrous ends. But a year after the sketch aired, FOX created a show with that exact premise, and it was Meet your new mommu indeed called Trading spouses. CRACKED.COM

Apple

IN 1987, APPLE RELEASED A PROMO VIDEO IMAGINING not FUTURE TECHNOLOGY. our iPlayer IT SHOWED A TABLET COMPUTER WITH VIDEO CHAT AND VOICE-BASED SEARCH. The scene was supposed to take place on september 16, 2011. The iPad ended up coming out in 2010. The first Apple tablet with a voice- based assistant (siri) came out september 2011, within two weeks of the date the video predicted. CRACKED.COM

Monty Python

IN1969, MONTY PYTHON GAVE US THE MOUSE PROBLEM. The Little WHITE RODENT Room A NEWS REPORT INVESTIGATES MEN DRESSING UP AS MICE AS A FETISH. The idea was supposed to make fun of gay panic. Half a century later, we now know about furries, so the sketch barely registers as a joke. MAGGIE CRACKED.COM

Poltergeist

A FOOTBALL POSTER IN POLTERGEIST SAYS 1988 SUPER BOWL XXII. 1988 SUPERTOWN XXII WHICH IS WEIRD, BECAUSE THE FILM WAS RELEASED IN 1982. In 1988, on the day of super Bowl XXII, Poltergeist actress Heather O'Rourke happened to be living in san Diego, the city where the game was taking place. she suddenly became violently ill and died the following afternoon. CRACKED.COM

Seinfeld

ON SEINFELD, JERRY AND ELAINE EAT NONFAT FROZEN YOGURT BUT GAIN WEIGHT. THEY DEDUCE THAT THE YOGURT ISN'T AS NONFAT AS IT CLAIMS. just a few months later, New York Magazine published a study of various desserts that claimed to be diet or nonfat. The frozen yogurt industry turned out to be just as dishonest as seinfeld jokingly portrayed. CRACKED.COM

Eminem

EMINEM'S VIDEO LIKE TOY SOLDIERS SHOWS RAPPER PROOF DYING IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER GETTING SHOT. TWO YEARS LATER, PROOF WAS INDEED FATALLY SHOT. In the video, Proof reenacted the death of another rapper, Bugz. Eminem could have picked anybody he wanted for the role of friend who gets shot to death, but he selected Proof, in a case of terrifying precognition. CRACKED.COM

Chris Rock

IN 1999, CHRIS ROCK OPENED HIS HBO SHOW BY JOKINGLY SAYING O.J. SIMPSON VISITED TO PROMOTE A VIDEO. Dian't KIII MY Wife! But If I DID, Here's How I'd Do It ITS TITLE: I DIDN'T KILL MY WIFE... BUT IF I DID, HERE'S HOW I'D DO IT. in 2007, simpson really did release DID IT D.J. SIMPSO a book called If I Did It, about the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Не even planned a TV special called O.J. simpson: If I Did It, Here's HOW It Happened. IFF DID IT CRACKED.COM

John Brunner

JOHN BRUNNER STAND ON ZANZIBAR takes place in 2010 and has a popular leader named President Obomi, who happens to be African It was published in 1968. CRACKED.COM

Gulliver’s Travels

GRAGKED.COM two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars...- Jonathan Swift, describing the Red Planet's moons in his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. Phobos and Deimos, discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall

Ghost Recon

CRACKED COM THE VIDEOGAME TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON UNCANNILY PREDICTED THE RUSSIA - GEORGIA WAR. RELEASED IN 2001, THE GAME WAS SET IN APRIL 2008 - JUST R FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE REAL WAR.

Dream Theater

DREAM:THEATER LIVE SCENES FROM NEW YORK Pictured above: Dream Theater's original cover artwork for their live 3-CD album Live Scenes from New York ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 9/11/01 CRACKED.COM

Laugh-In

In a 1969 episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, a sketch called News Of The Future accurately predicted Ronald Reagan would be President in 1988. Later that year, yet another News Of The Future segment foresaw the exact year the Berlin Wall would fall. GRAGKED.COM

The Treaty of Versailles

CRACKED COM When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending the First World War in 1919, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch responded... THIS IS NOT PEACE. IT IS AN ARMISTICE FOR TWENTY YEARS. The Second World War started in 1939.

Ray Bradbury

And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. -Fahrenheit 451 Well, It seems that Ray Bradbury knew something that we didn't CRACKED.COM

H.G. Wells

The atomic bombs were thrown... They made a mighty thunder in the air, leaving a flaring trail in the sky... a black background to these tremendous pillars of fire... (and) radio-active vapour drifting sometimes scores of miles from the bomb centre and killing...all they overtook. H.G. Wells, The World Set Free (1913) The Manhattan Project began 26 years later. The first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6th, 1945 on Hiroshima, Japan. CRACKED.COM

Mikey Welsh

Two weeks before his death in a Chicago hotel, former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh predicted a twitter post. his own demise via @MikeyWelsh71 Mikey Welsh dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today. 26 Sep via web @MikeyWelsh71 Mikey Welsh @JVittitow correction-the GRAGKED.COM weekend after next

Cowboy Bebop

CRACKED.COM IN 1999 COWBOY BEBOP HAD A PLOT INVOLVING AN ANTIQUE SPACECRAFT BEING USED IN A RESCUE MISSION WHICH NEARLY FAILED WHEN THE SHUTTLES HEAT RESISTANT TILES PEELED OFF IN 2003 THE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA DISINTEGRATED AFTER ITS HEAT RESISTANT TILES PEELED OFF. THE COINCIDENCE IS CREEPY ENOUGH WITHOUT MENTIONING THAT THE SHIP IN ВЕВОР WAS THE COLUMBIA

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